[reportlab-users] barLabels in a stacked HorizontalBarChart()

[Robin Becker]

On 09/09/2013 14:04, Helga Peters wrote:

> Dear Robin,

>

> Maybe my question was not so clear. I meant that when one of the two values

> of the series is '0', the values (barLabels) overwrite eachother, thus the

> '0' and the '1', see screenshot.

>

my bad, I misunderstood. I think it's quite a hard problem to get the bar labels 
to behave well when the bars get small. There's not enough room.



> Even better would be if instead of 2 barlabel, I could show 1 barlabel

> which represents the total of both values, something like the '6' in

> screenshot.


I think this means bespoke labels. I know we can do this sort of thing, but it's 
probably not in the base code. I'll take a look when I get some free time. I 
think the procatical problem is that we assumed the labels only need access to 
their own bar value so getting the sum needs some real trickery.


> Hope that this is clearer.

> Thanks in advance,

> Helga

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Robin Becker